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Welcome to ICAPS The ICAPS 2025 conference will be held November 915 2025 in Melbourne Victoria Australia. Conference chairs Nir Lipovetzky and Sebastian Sardina. Program chairs Daniel Harabor Julie Porteous and Miquel Ramirez Planning is the art and practice of thinking before acting. The primary objectives of ICAPS are to further the field of automated planning and scheduling through the organization of technical meetings including the annual ICAPS conference through the organization of summer schools tutorials and training activities at various events through the organization of planning and scheduling competitions benchmarking and other means of advancing and assessing the state of the art in the field by promoting the involvement of young scientists in the field through scholarships and other means and by promoting and disseminating publications planning and scheduling systems domains simulators software tools and technical material.